Process for printing and goffering fabrics.



E. E. MARINIIER.

PROCESS FOR PRINTING AND GOFFERING FABRICS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I, 1914.

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E. E. MARINIER.

PROCESS FOR PRINTING AND GOFFERING FABRICS.

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PROCESS FOR PRINTING AND GOFFERING FABRICS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

Application filed September 1, 1914. Serial No. 859,678.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST EDOUARD MA- BINIER, a citizen of the French Republic,- residing at No. 114. Rue de la Convention, in Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Processes for Printing and Goffering Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

It is a known fact that the printing and gofi'erinnr in a plurality of colors, of velvet, plush, telt, cloth, leather, &c., by a single 7 contact of one or more engraved plates, has

notbeen effected successfully hitherto.

Now this invention has for its object to provide an improved process, which will allow of the simultaneous printing and goffering of velvet, plush, leather, or any other materials capable of being treated by such a process and by means of which entirely new products can be obtained in the sense that those comprise an unlimited number pf uxtaposed or superposed colors producing effects that have not been obtained hitherto.

An embodiment of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which: a

Figure 1 shows a piece of fabric simultaneously printed and gofi'ered by means of a plate on which the first part of. the drawing Fig. 3 has been engraved.

Fig. 2 shows a piece of fabric treated in the same way by a second plate on which the second part of the drawing Fig. 3 has been engraved.

Fig. 3 shows the pixtaposltionof the drawings Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 on the same piece of fabric, obtained by impressing successively the plates carrying the drawings Figs. 1 and 2 on the fabric.

Fig. 4 is a perspective front elevation of a press modified according to this invention for the purpose of carrying the improved process into effect.

Fig. 5 is a flat side view of one of the plates employed to produce the desired result.

According to my invention, the fabric 5, see Fig. 3 is subjected to two successive 9perations each of which consists of gotfermg and printing performed simultaneously. A}; the first of these operations, the fabric 1s gofi'ered and printed bymeans of a plate on which the design 9, Fig. 1, has been engraved, and then a similar operation is performed with the plate bearing the design h (Fig. 2). Both plates bearing the designs 9 and k are engraved in such a way that by pressing them on the fabric the latter may be printed and goflered at the same time. Instead of applying the designs in such a way that they will come on different points of the fabric, as in the example illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the designs might be made to cross or overlap, so that a great variety of designs and of colorings may be obtained by means "of superposed color impressions and gofierings.

In carrying the improved process into effect, use is made of a press a the upper plate I) of'which is heated. A slideway c is located (Fig. 4) below this plate.

a This press may be operated by any suitable means. For the sake of convenience of descriptlon, it is assumed that it is a hand press operated by a hand lever.

The improved process is carried into effect as follows First, the piece of velvet, for instance which is to be gofi'ered, is attached by any suitable means, on the pad or cushion (I, made out of a piece of card-board, indiarubher, or any other suitable material, placed on the movable plate 0 of the press and destmedto receive the pressure of the press 1n order that the goifering and printing plate may not be injured by being pressed on too hard a surface such as plate e would be. The main point is that the velvet shall not be able to be shifted by the various op erations to which it is subjected, in order to allow o f placing the various designs in jtlXtflPOSltlOIl.

A first engraved plate f is then taken and inserted into the slideway c for the purpose of being heated. '1

Fig. 5 shows one shape which this enaved plate may have, in order to enable it to be handled nd inserted with ease into the slideway. s

when the temperature requisite for producing the gofi'ering is attained, the engraved plate is removed from the slideway and is coated with any suitable mordant or size.

This coat is intended as a first treatment of the velvet for laying its pile only at the engraved places by pasting together the pile at those places so as to allow, by the gofi'ering operation, of the production of flat or planerelief surfaces,-2'. e. of surfaces such that all the relief parts be on a same level. It has also the advantage of allowing the production of colors on black fabrics.

It is to be understood that these surfaces may be plain, fluted, tessellated or dotted or otherwise for the purpose of presenting a favorable surface for the coloring matter which will enable the latter to be applied thereon with absolute precision and uniformity.

When the first engraved plate has been coated with size as above stated, it is inserted into the slideway c and the velvet is then pressed. A

The engraving fixed on the plate f being thus pressed down upon the pad or backing 0!, there will be produced thereby a gotfered and sized velvet.

After having produced this first result the engraved plate is removed and inked with for instance, red coloring matter by means of rollers operated by hand or mechanical power.

The plate thus inked with for instance red color, is inserted again into the slideway 0, and the velvet is pressed a second time.

By this second pressing the velvet is simultaneously gofiered and printed with the red color; it being understood that the engraving on this plate comprises only that which is to be reproduced in red.

After having thus produced the red goffering the engraved plate is removed from the slideway c, and in its place there is insorted a second engraved plate with which the same operation is repeated in the manner hereinbefore described with respect to the first engraved plate; it being understood that this second engraved plate bears only the engraving which is to be reproduced in a yellow color for instance. The engraving on this said second engraved plate may be executed in such a manner as to cause its yellow portions to come over the red portions produced by the first or red engraved plate. By this means a superposed arrangement of the colors is produced.

If it is desired to have a blue color for instance, a third engraved platemay be provided inked with a blue color, and soon.

The blue engraving may also be arranged to come over and thus be superposed upon the red or yellow portions, or upon colors which are already superposed one on the other.

By this means an engraving in three pri mary colors may be produced, together with superposed colors at the desired places, and it is to be understood that as many difi'erent colors will be produced by superpositions of colors as there are engraved plates.

The engraved plates may also be formed with grooves or flutings arranged so as to intersect the grooves or fiutings of the first plates, whereby a tessellated or quadilateral pattern --will be produced which can be adapted to give the effect of shading.

The engraving of the superposed plates. or portions may be executed in dotted work or in line Work of any kind, straight, curved, wavy, broken, more or less coarse or thick and more or less close together, thereby producing varied effects and appearances, and new grounds or backgrounds. The goii'er'ed portions may also be superposed one upon the other; the gofferings being of course different from the first gofi'ering. Then after these superpositions have been produced new superpositions &c. may be made.

It is to be noted that theadvantage of the im roved process consists in that it allows ot a rapid drying of the color which is instantly absorbed and is dried very quickly by reason of the great pressure applied to the fabric and the heat employed.

This combination allows of effecting at once.

the superposition of the pressures without mixing the colors, which thus constitutes a means of applying the three-color process to all fabrics.

The improved process allows of obtaining good results inasmuch as the material operated on is brought into register at the very beginning of the operations, and it cannot shift out of place in any way during the entire series of operations, so that it does not undergo anyideformation or distortion, thus enabling perfect sharpness of outlines of the colors to be attained.

Engraved plates specially reserved for imprinting superposed colors may also be provided. I

, It is to be understood'that the improved process may be modified and the number of engraved plates may be varied, according as experience and practical requirements may dictate. I

The designs of the engravings may be of all kinds. e

What I claim is:

1. An improved process for the simultaneous printing, and goflering of plush, felt, cloth, leather and all other analogous mate'- rials consisting in fixing the material to be treated on a support in such a manner that it cannot shift thereon, heating an engraved plate, coating the heated plate with a mordant or suitable sizing, pressing said coated and heated plate upon the material to be treated whereby the portions of said material which are to be colored, acquire a fiat or plane surface favorable to the reception of color, then removing the engraved plate, inking same with color, and pressing it again upon the material to be treated, whereby said material is simultaneously goflered and printed with color.

2. An improved process for the simultaneous printing and gofi'ering'of plush, felt, cloth, leather and all other analogous materials consisting in fixing the material .to be treated on a support in such a manner that it cannot shift thereon, heating an engraved plate by inserting it in the slideway of a ress, removing said late when hot, coatmg the heated plate with a mordant or suitable sizing, replacing said plate in said slideway, pressing said coated and heated plate upon the material to be treated whereby the portions of said material which are to be colored, acquire a flat or plane surface favorable to the reception of color, then removing the engraved plate, inking same with color, inserting said plate in said slideway, and pressing it again upon the material to be treated, whereby said material is simultaneously goflered and printed with color.

3. An improved process for the simultaneous printing and gofl'ering of velvet, plush, felt, cloth, leather and all other analogous materials, consisting in fixing the material to be treated on a support in such a manner that it cannot shift thereon, heating an engraved plate, coating the heated plate with a mordant or suitable sizing, pressing said coated and heated plate upon the material be treated whereby the portions of said material which are to be colored, acquire a plane or flat surface favorable to the reception of color, then removing the engraved plate, inking same with color, and pressin it again upon the material to be treatec, whereby said material is simultaneously gotfered and printed with color, and for the purpose of printing said material with one or more additional colors, using one or more further engraved plates treated and operated in the same manner as the above 'mentioned engraved plate. ,7

4. An improved process for the simultaneous printing, and goflering of velvet, plush, felt, cloth, leather and all other analogous materials, consisting in fixing the material to be treated on a support in such a manner that it cannot shift thereon, heating an engraved plate, coating the heated plate with a mordant or suitable sizing, pressing said coated and heated plate upon the material to be treated whereby the portions of said material which are to be color'ed, acqulre a flat or planesurface favorable to the reception of color, then removing the same manner as the above mentioned engraved plate.

5. An improved process for the simultaneous rinting and gotl'ering of velvet, plush, t lt, cloth, leather and all other analogous materials, consisting in fixing the material to be treated on a support, in such a manner that it cannot shift thereon, heating an engraved plate, coating the heated plate with a mordant or suitable sizing, pressing said coated and heated plate upon the material to be treated whereby the portions of said material which are tobe colored, acquire a flat or plane surface favorable to the reception of color, then removing the engraved plate, inking same with color, and pressing it again upon the material to be tre'atedywhereby said 'material is simultaneously gofl'ered and printed with color, and in order that the plane surfaces destined to receive the color may be fluted, tessellated, dotted, etc or present any combination of fiutings, tessellations, dots, etc., favorable to the reception of-the coloring material, making the different plates with different grooves, flutings, dots, etc.

In testimony whereof I have signed my.

name to this specification in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ERNEST EDOUARD MARIKIEE. Witnesses:

' MELLE FLANTE,

Hanson C. Coxa. 

